This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COWDEN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nFQ.2ACEB/179 Message Board Post: I wish people would be specific about locales. A 'state' alone is not always helpful. I am the gggrdchild of HENRY COWDEN, b. abt. 1845 in Virginia or Maryland, d. 12/31/1895 in Burlington, Iowa, but before the Civil War and the end of slavery he lived in Booneville, Columbia County, Missouri. He enlisted in the 60th US Colored Troops from there in Dec. 1863. CHARLES COWDEN (a relative?) mustered in from Booneville into the 68th US Colored Infantry the next year. CHARLES returned to Booneville after the Late Unpleasantness. HENRY married once in Keokuk, Iowa to a wife who died before producing an heir. HENRY married ROSANNA MUDD (WHITESIDES) COWDEN about 1875. They had 8 children. NATHAN (?1876); CHESTER (1877); GOLDIE (1880); ELLA(1883); ISAIAH (d. 1886); CLIFFORD (1890); MABEL (1893); and GERTRUDE (1895). All the children were born in Burlington, Iowa and ROSANNA died 8/11/1944 collecting a Civil War pension until the day she died.